IPhone 4s Washed in the Laundry, what to do?
I woke up the next finding my Iphone 4s in my laundry… Going through a full cycle and everything that comes between. It has a case that protected it from any cosmetic damages.
Anyways, after 4 days of sitting inside a container of rice, and 4 days of air drying, it would not turn on (screen does not turn on, no sound etc etc). I plugged it in my computer and held the power button + home button to get into recovery mode. Itunes recognizes that an Iphone 4s is plugged in and suggests a complete restore and update, which I accept. However, after a few minutes, an error pops up saying "The Iphone could not be restored. An unknown errored (3194)."
Also, at the first 10 minutes or so of its charge, the iphone gets a bit warm. It then slowly cools down then thats when the Itune recognizes it, not sure if that helps.
Am I completely screwed? Any ideas what I could do? I was thinking of buying the special screw for it and opening it up and possibly putting it in distilled water to clean up or replacing the battery.
Added (1). Thanks Cuscatlan but I have passed that phase if you read what I typed.
First take a towel and wrap the phone in a towel try to get it as dry as possible
then leave it in a bag of nice overnight then in the morning just keep blow drying the thing
don't charge the phone or connect it to anything because if electricity flows through the phone while its wet inside you will fry the insides basically
There's nothing you can do. In the overwhelming majority of cases a simple immersion in water destroys a phone, and yours went through a hot agitated wet bath with added salts and detergents.
It makes no difference at all that there's some apparent residual functionality, you may as well have crushed it or burnt it. Some parts are permanently changed by water, and there will be residual traces of electrolytes dried onto the components and dried into some of them. There's no way to remove them without replacing all of your phones internal components and that's not cost effective.
Your attempts to recharge the phone risk a fire and may also damage your charger; in turn a damaged charger might not reveal itself until it damages your eventual replacement phone.
Your fix is simple but expensive: chuck the phone into a recycling box or sell it with an honest description; despite having almost nothing now salvageable as spare parts there are always foolish optimists who will still buy such phones. Any money you get back can go towards the cost of a replacement phone and charger.
No i sent my phone to apple tree when mine went in the washing machine and they got it working for me. I lost all my data but i didn't care i had my phone back. Don't give up hope.
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